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Skans » 22 Jan 2025, 6:33 pm » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2025, 6:33 pm

Well, then they F-ed something up.  Cuz, it was doing good for a long time.

Yes, they got off cheap Russian gas. 

Their energy costs have tripled on a GOOD day. Without cheap energy, their economy simply does not work.

Liquifying, transporting, and de-liquifying natural gas is expensive and dangerous. The U.S. is not a natural provider of fuel to Europe. Russia is. Pipelines are the cheapest and safest way to transport ANYTHING. Ships are the most expensive and most dangerous to man and beast. 

The U.S. could never compete with Russia for gas sales to Europe. So Russia had to be taken off the game board. The net result is the enslavement of our European vassals. And Trump finds those peasants revolting. He mentioned the trans-Atlantic relationship zero times in his speech after the renauguration. The omission was heard around the world.

Trump manifestly plans to feast on Europe and then wipe with Europe. And the groveling **** running the E.U. are all talking about paying the 5% of GDP protection Trump is demanding. Spain is one of the least interested in upping its NATO vigorish. They are barely above 1% to this day, even after Trump's NATO-boosting achievements in his first term. Most European countries are kowtowing to the E.U. (which kowtows to the U.S.), with the exceptions of Slovenia, Hungary, to a lesser degree Bulgaria, and the CITIZENS (not the current governments) of Germany and Romania (where elections were cancelled to prevent a right winger from winning).